Table 3. Sub-category of roles respondents performed over the last 12 months.
AEMT: advanced emergency medical technicians; EMT: emergency medical technician; w/o: without
| EMT N = 16,871 N (%) | AEMT N = 1,677 N (%) | Paramedic N = 14,787 N (%) | |
| Emergent response (immediate, with or without 9-1-1) | |||
| Ground ambulance | 6,635 (39.3) | 984 (58.7) | 8,657 (58.5) |
| Non-ambulance response (rescue squad, fire apparatus) | 4,148 (24.6) | 337 (20.1) | 1,891 (12.8) |
| Aeromedical (fixed wing or rotor) | 105 (0.6) | 4 (0.2) | 633 (4.3) |
| Law enforcement/security services/tactical | 487 (2.9) | 25 (1.5) | 111 (0.8) |
| Clinical services (hospital/urgent care) | |||
| Emergency department | 758 (4.5) | 42 (2.5) | 451 (3.0) |
| Outpatient clinical space (physician’s office, clinic) | 284 (1.7) | 18 (1.1) | 137 (0.9) |
| Hospital setting (hospital floor) | 144 (0.9) | 6 (0.4) | 74 (0.5) |
| Intensive care unit (neonatal, pediatrics, adult) | 27 (0.2) | 5 (0.3) | 39 (0.3) |
| Medical transport (non-emergent) | |||
| Ground (interfacility transport, not critical care) | 913 (5.4) | 62 (3.7) | 312 (2.1) |
| Ground (critical care transport) | 182 (1.1) | 13 (0.8) | 220 (1.5) |
| Aeromedical transport | 35 (0.2) | 1 (0.1) | 182 (1.2) |
| Ground (convalescent transport) | 272 (1.6) | 10 (0.6) | 38 (0.3) |
| Mobile integrated health/community paramedicine | |||
| Acute medical care | 65 (0.4) | 4 (0.2) | 56 (0.4) |
| Prevention services | 36 (0.2) | 4 (0.2) | 23 (0.2) |
| Coordination of services | 3 (0.0) | 0 | 18 (0.1) |
| Healthcare maintenance | 14 (0.1) | 1 (0.1) | 17 (0.1) |
| None of the above | |||
| Administrator (quality assurance, oversight) | 189 (1.1) | 18 (1.1) | 532 (3.6) |
| Educator (for an agency or program) | 235 (1.4) | 25 (1.5) | 454 (3.1) |
| Dispatcher/communications | 92 (0.5) | 7 (0.4) | 41 (0.3) |
| Researcher | 14 (0.1) | 0 | 7 (0.0) |
| Missing | 2,233 | 11 | 894 |